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Comment Re:What Restrictions Should Student Laptops Have? (Score 1) 1117

by spagetti_code on Wednesday December 17, 2008 @11:32PM (#26154981) Attached to: What Restrictions Should Student Laptops Have?

1) Whatever you do, kids will get around it. You can only do a good job of security a box if you have physical security. And you dont.
2) If you do something and it fails, you are liable. So if some kid gets porn all over his Laptop despite your best efforts, his parents are coming after you.
3) Spend your time protecting your severs and dealing with the fact that you are going to have a lot of worm/virus laden laptops coming into your LAN.

Submission + - Apple rumor site Think Secret settles, shuts down

Submitted by

ohthetrees

on Thursday December 20, 2007 @03:27AM

ohthetrees writes: "Think Secret, the longtime Apple rumor and news site is shutting down. An announcement on the site explains that they have reached a settlement with apple in which they didn't name any of their sources, but they are closing down. Other terms, if any, were not disclosed. Think Secret has been one of the more reliable rumor sites for years."

Submission + - Mother of current ISS Astronaut killed in accident (msn.com)

Submitted by Itsallmyfault on Thursday December 20, 2007 @03:24AM

Itsallmyfault writes: The 90-year-old mother of a NASA astronaut aboard the international space station died Wednesday when a train struck her vehicle, police said. A preliminary investigation showed that Rose Tani, the mother of astronaut Daniel M. Tani, stopped behind a school bus pausing at a train crossing, Raymond Byrne, police chief in this Chicago suburb, said in a statement. She drove around the bus, bypassing the lowered crossing gate, he said. In what may have been a first for NASA, officials called Astronaut Daniel Tani over a secure connection to give him the news, then offered any help he might need.

Submission + - One-Click-Submission to German terror watchlist (www.bka.de) 5

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 30, 2007 @06:03PM

An anonymous reader writes: As the German daily Der Tagesspiegel reported today, the German federal criminal agency has a new strategy to catch terrorists: they put up an informational web page about the terrorist group "militante Gruppe" ("militant group") and now look at their web logs. If someone clicks on that link, his IP address will be investigated and he will be put on the terror watchlist. It would be utter madness of us to ask you to click on THIS LINK to put a billion people on their list so we are not even going to mention the URL. In case you find it, do not click on it! Thank you.

Submission + - Fund software by teaming up (micropledge.com)

Submitted by mr.october on Wednesday August 15, 2007 @12:02AM

mr.october writes: Get paid to finish (or get others to finish) your pet projects. The guys over at microPledge have just gone live with their new micro-pledge scheme, which they describe as "an open-source software house, a contract developer website, and an online auction all rolled into one." Looks like a great way to bring software developers and interested users/customers/clients/etc. (with "micro" amounts of money) together. If you're like me, you already have a list of software projects you've been hanging on to for a while in the hopes that you'd get time to finish them yourself. Now's your chance — go get a bunch of people to pay you to finish them, or better yet get a bunch of people to pay someone else to do it for you.

Submission + - SUN reveals their reason on the OOXML vote (freecode.no)

Submitted by

Geir Isene

on Thursday August 09, 2007 @07:43PM

Geir Isene writes: "SUN's Jon Bosak explains the reasons for SUN's vote and why he believes that OOXML is not ready — see the link (pdf) at the bottom of the page: http://www.freecode.no/news/"

Submission + - UK students must submit fingerprints for lunch (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by

wikinerd

on Monday July 23, 2007 @10:37PM

wikinerd writes: "A school in the UK decided to start requesting fingerprint scans from its 1100 students before being allowed to get their lunch. From next term, the same school expects to use the biometric system for controlling entry into the school, as well as for dictating who is allowed to use the school's printers. According to a concerned citizen, the school did not consult the parents before implementing the new policy. Currently students carry ID cards that are used for getting their lunches, and the school claims that the biometric system is a means to limit expenses from lost cards, and since the fingerprint scans are not stored there is no breach of civil rights and no need for asking the parents first. However, a group named Leave The Kids Alone says that this is an infringement of liberty since fingerprint templates are stored and can be accessed by the police."

Submission + - Inflight internet returns to the skies -- Qantas (apcmag.com)

Submitted by

SlinkySausage

on Monday July 23, 2007 @09:28PM

SlinkySausage writes: "Australian international airline Qantas has just announced inflight broadband will be available across all classes in its new fleet of A380s, as well as laptop power in economy and internet access in the seat-back entertainment system! It is also retrofitting existing 747s with elements of the scheme. Interestingly, it is also offering USB and RJ45 (!!) ports to every passenger but has yet to disclose what these will be used for. Full story at APC Magazine."

Search Sites Unveil Privacy Plans 34

Posted by kdawson on Monday July 23, 2007 @09:03PM from the what-a-little-congressional-interest-can-do dept.

Klaidas sends us word of BBC coverage of action on privacy by the top four search sites. Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and Ask have introduced plans to reduce the data they store and how long they store it. From the article: "The rush to improve privacy policies was started by Google in March when it announced it would start deleting the final parts of the individual address it collects from each user's computer after 18 months... Microsoft is expected to make a similar announcement to separate the identifying address and other data from searches after 18 months. The information will be held for longer if users request it. Yahoo said it would delete identifying addresses and cookies after 13 months... Ask is taking the most radical step by unveiling plans for a tool called AskEraser which, it claims, will let people tune whether data is gathered about them on a search-by-search basis."

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